Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - Re: Cannot turn on Network Discovery and File Sharing

mkarwin · 05-17-2008, 03:48 AM

OSes of the hardware i use are visible in the profile... my router is Linksys one (WRT160N). till, dunno, last week everything was ok. then i had my other pcs off duty :D for a week and a few days. a couple of days ago i tried to use a printer connected to my desktop pc without any luck (no printing possible)... so i tried to upload the files to the shared folder on the big desktop tower :D but again with no luck - unable to see any of the machines on the network, neither the printers connected nor folders/directories/drives shared...

i finally have thought that it must be the notebook and its vista - i tried to check it and as you can see on the picture included in the first post i have network discovery off... the problem is i can't turn it on... i have aegis installed and running, same for microsoft's drivers, lltd or how it is called, simply everything is checked and double-checked but still i can't turn network discovery or anything else on (and everything is "working" as it is not greyed out - the only problem lies in the fact that i can't change any option (i work as admin, uac was put to off, and as on on it has not helped a bit) - i click apply, uac if on asks for permission, and the effect is nothing changes...

any ideas?

05-17-2008, 03:48 AM	#3 (permalink)
mkarwin Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 3 OS: Vista HP SP2, XP Pro SP3, 2003 Server, KUbuntu 7.1	Re: Cannot turn on Network Discovery and File Sharing OSes of the hardware i use are visible in the profile... my router is Linksys one (WRT160N). till, dunno, last week everything was ok. then i had my other pcs off duty :D for a week and a few days. a couple of days ago i tried to use a printer connected to my desktop pc without any luck (no printing possible)... so i tried to upload the files to the shared folder on the big desktop tower :D but again with no luck - unable to see any of the machines on the network, neither the printers connected nor folders/directories/drives shared... i finally have thought that it must be the notebook and its vista - i tried to check it and as you can see on the picture included in the first post i have network discovery off... the problem is i can't turn it on... i have aegis installed and running, same for microsoft's drivers, lltd or how it is called, simply everything is checked and double-checked but still i can't turn network discovery or anything else on (and everything is "working" as it is not greyed out - the only problem lies in the fact that i can't change any option (i work as admin, uac was put to off, and as on on it has not helped a bit) - i click apply, uac if on asks for permission, and the effect is nothing changes... any ideas?